Nvidia starts offering mobile GPU drivers directly

Getting driver updates for desktop graphics cards is usually pretty easy: head to the GPU maker's website, grab the latest driver release, and you're set. That procedure often doesn't work with mobile GPUs, since users have to rely on laptop makers to provide driver updates—something that doesn't always happen in a timely manner.

Numbered ForceWare 179.28, this driver release offers support for Nvidia's CUDA technology and PhysX hardware acceleration. Notebook users should now be able to run tools like Elemental's Badaboom to transcode videos using the GPU, and they'll also be able to play Mirror's Edge with PhysX effects turned on early next year (assuming they're using reasonably powerful mobile GPUs, that is).